James Harold Allen, Coryell Co. TX

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                             JAMES HAROLD ALLEN
                                      
  Born somewhere in Texas, James Harold Allen was in Gatesville in 1873. He is
  mentioned in "A History of Coryell County, Texas." On p. 72, J.H.Allen is
  listed as a floor manager for a soiree at the Courthouse at 8 pm, January 8,
  1873. His first wife Jeffersonia Crittenden Allen, died that year. They had a
  son, Jesse, 9 at the time of the 1880 census. On December 24, 1874, James
  married Martha Jane "Mattie" Hammack, also of Gatesville. They had one child,
  a daughter, Ocelalu Juanita Allen, born February 6, 1880, and her father died
  in September of that same year, she was only 7 months old when he died. He is
  buried in the Oddfellows Cemetery in Gatesville. According to the 1880
  census, he was a saloon keeper, and both parents were born in TN. He was a
  member of the IOOF, Gatesville Lodge #111, and fought as a sergeant in Co. E.
  1st MS Cavalry (Pinson's). When James died, Mattie remarried to William
  Holmes Lovejoy. Since both the boy's parents were now dead, Jesse's
  grandfather William Crittenden applied for, and was granted, guardianship.
  Juanita, the daughter of James and Mattie, stayed with her mother. She
  attended the Female Department of Baylor University. On December 27, 1900,
  Juanita married James Ashby Boyd (b. May 27, 1854 in Ralls Co. Missouri, d:
  November 20, 1947 in Sapulpa, OK) in Wynnewood, I.T., and in 1901 she and
  J.A. moved to Sapulpa. They built a house at 116 W Bryan in 1905 and added to
  it as the family increased. Juanita and J. A. had five children, 1. Powell
  Boyd born November 30, 1902 Sapulpa, IT; d: October 01, 1987, Albuquerque,
  NM, 2. Jack Allen Boyd born January 6, 1904, sapulpa, IT; d: November 6,
  1911, Sapulpa, OK 3. James Stuart Boyd born November 6, 1906, Sapulpa, IT; d:
  April 26, 1976, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 4. Virginia Juanita Boyd born June 22, 1914,
  Sapulpa, OK; d: February 02, 1935, Sand Springs, OK, 5. William Deeds Boyd
  born October 30, 1917, Sapulpa, OK. Of these, the Rev. William Deeds Boyd
  alone survives although there are many other descendants. Juanita Allen Boyd
  herself died May 26, 1953 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. By Donna & James Harold Allen
  Boyd

            copyrighted by Donna Boyd and Bobbie Ross Sept.2000